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 AWESOME litte printer November 21, 2009
Y. Roth
Purchased this printer while it was on Gold box deal and do not regret it! Having used this printer for about six weeks now, I have not come across any CONS as of this time. Quickly connects and recognized my Canon Rebel XSi, Quick PnP on both my laptop and desktop. Prints are just as good as any drug store, photo finisher, and looks better than my photo inkjet printer. If you purchase this unit be sure to purchase an extra paper/cartridge pack as this printer comes with 10 4 x 6 sheets.
 Excellent printer for the money November 17, 2009
M. Pennington (Seattle, WA USA)
I would gladly purchase again, we purchased for our charity group to take pictures of children in their Halloween costumes so they could decorate the pictures as a memento of the event. so needed an on site printer (actually two) to do the job. Worked great, it could be a little faster but for the money I think it was just right.
Good little printer - avoid the software November 3, 2009
D. James
This is my second dye-sub printer, and it is an improvement in size, noise and speed. The picture quality is similar, which means it is still very good. I opened the box and set everything up quickly, the paper tray and ink only go in one way so it is easy to use.
The problems started when I installed the software. The install was OK, but when I tried to use it I just couldn't find how to get it to print. I am a geek, and build my own machines and play with lots of software, so I can usually work things out, but with this I had to use the last resort of reading the manual. Even then, I only managed to do a simple print, the other features to customize a print were too confusing to even attempt. The next day I wanted to use the printer again, and I couldn't remember the name of the software program in the Start menu, so I had to go back to the install disk and start the install again to work out what it was called. I have another Canon printer which uses a completely different piece of software, which is slightly better, but why doesn't Canon make a standard program for all their printers? This looks like it was thrown together by the hardware engineers with no regard to how a user would use it. I prefer using software that comes with a machine, as it has access to all the features. Its like trying to use a universal remote control, its fine for start/stop/pause but to get into the setup menu you need the manufacturers remote. Now I am just printing from other programs and possible missing out on cool features, but I could not use that program again.
I did not remove any stars as I purchased this printer for the quality of the prints, and that is certainly 5 star.
Good little printer, if you need one September 25, 2009
Charles (NC)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you absolutely have to do your own printing, this is a good printer to buy. Bottom line: most photo labs will print cheaper, with better quality control, with known sizing, and with known print lifetime.
Quality: This dye-sublimation printer will match the quality of a lab. The prints are clear and well colored. (I use a color calibration tool for my monitor, so I know the colors are correct out of the printer. I suspect that may be the problem with other reviewers who have complained of mismatched color.)
Cost: you are looking at about $60 to buy the unit, plus $0.27 per print. Photo labs tend to start at $0.19 per print. You pay extra for the convenience of print-it-here-and-now, but it's not too bad of a cost. The "sample media" provided by Canon was good for exactly 5 prints. Be sure to buy your first 108-pack if you order this printer.
Quality control: A dye-sub printer will (in my experience) give more consistent quality than an inkjet. Inks dry out, colored films do not. Ink nozzles can block up, leaving streaks in your prints, colored films do not. Even so, an imperfection in the ribbon or the paper will be visible in your prints. I've already seen this happen with this unit in the 3rd image that I printed. There is a bright green spot in my print where the magenta film had a defect. This is another win for a lab: if I'd received this print from a lab, I could get them to reprint it for free. To redo it myself will cost me another $0.27 for the new print.
Sizing: as has already been mentioned in another review, the sizing of 4x6 prints is about 3-15/16" by 5-13/16", when printing "borderless" on the perforated 4x6 sheets. Any professional printer will tell you that you have to plan for bleed space when you send imagery for printing, and this is a good example. Don't print pictures with the content all the way up to the edges, or you will be disappointed when it gets cut off. This is probably true of your photo lab as well, so plan ahead and save yourself the grief. Note as well that the aspect ratio of a 4x6 print is 3:2 and the aspect ratio of most point-and-shoot cameras is 4:3. Some labs will offer 4.5x6 prints for this very reason, to avoid cropping the image. There are no cropping/positioning tools on the printer, so you'll want to pre-crop in your favorite image editor before sending 4:3 images to this printer. That or shoot with a DSLR that has a 3:2 ratio sensor anyway (All current Canon and Nikon SLRs).
Lifetime: Photo lab prints done on photographic paper have been around dozens of years. Their long-term resistance to fading is well known. Printer paper and dye-sublimation inks are not nearly so well known. I had an older (circa 2001) Olympus dye-sublimation photo printer, and the prints that I still have from that machine have NOT lasted. The colors have separated unevenly, or faded away entirely in some cases. I'm glad I didn't trust anything important to that medium. Canon claims prints from this printer will last 100 years. I'm hoping so.
Canon Selphy, nice pics but slow printing September 20, 2009
Shmeegles (PA)
Produces nice quality photos,but took about 1-2 minutes per photo. which is ok if you're only printing a few here and there. if you want to print alot of pics, do them at cvs.
only thing i don't like is that the 2 edges are perforated, have to tear off the extra photo paper edges(needs particular type of photo paper, specific to this printer).
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